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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






2. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






3. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






4. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






5. A three-line stanza.






6. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






7. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






8. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






9. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






10. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






11. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






12. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






13. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






14. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






15. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






16. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






17. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






18. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






19. A character struggles against some outside force.






20. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






21. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






22. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






23. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






24. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






25. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






26. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






27. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






28. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






29. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






30. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






31. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






32. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






33. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






34. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






35. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






36. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






37. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






38. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






39. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






40. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






41. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






42. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






43. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






44. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






45. A four line stanza in a poem.






46. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






47. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






48. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






49. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






50. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.







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